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The Intellectual Observer - Page 220
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Post-structuralist Readings of English Poetry

Richard Machin, Christopher Norris - 1987 - 422 pages
...imbecilic mind, here the poet expresses a hope, for himself and his friend, that they may Instruct . . . how the mind of man becomes A thousand times more beautiful than . . . this Frame of things (Which, 'mid all the revolution in the hopes And fears of men, doth still...
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Wordsworth: The Prelude

Stephen Gill - 1991 - 132 pages
...inspiration, sanctified / By reason and by truth' (443-4): what we have loved Others will love, and we may teach them how: Instruct them how the mind of man...dwells, above this frame of things (Which 'mid all revolutions in the hopes And fears of men, doth still remain unchanged) In beauty exalted, as it itself...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind. And reason, in her most exalted mood. 119 wer. How with this rage shall beauty 122 The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs. 123 Choice word and measured phrase, above...
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Romantic Revisions

Robert Brinkley, Keith Hanley - 1992 - 396 pages
...this distinguished catalogue, in that it is a poem which announces the future redemption of mankind, 'how the mind of man becomes / A thousand times more beautiful than the earth / On which he dwells' (1805, XIII. 446-8). I want now to return to the source of Wordsworth's flimsy, crazy belief in the...
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Wordsworth, Dialogics and the Practice of Criticism

Don H. Bialostosky - 1992 - 336 pages
...already taken place ; to teach others how, as Wordsworth declares in the closing lines of The Prelude " the mind of man becomes / A thousand times more beautiful than the earth / On which he dwells" (XIII, 446-48). Such teaching is not aimed, however, at inspiring worship of those powers, which are,...
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Romanticism & Gender

Anne Kostelanetz Mellor - 1993 - 292 pages
...mortality, Wordsworth represents his poetic self as pure ego, as "the mind of man," which thereby . . . becomes A thousand times more beautiful than the earth...dwells, above this frame of things (Which, 'mid all revolutions in the hopes And fears of men, doth still remain unchanged) In beauty exalted, as it is...
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Autobiographical Quests: Augustine, Montaigne, Rousseau, and Wordsworth

Elizabeth De Mijolla - 1994 - 204 pages
...lasting inspiration, sanctified By reason and by truth; what we have loved Others will love, and we may teach them how: Instruct them how the mind of man...dwells, above this frame of things (Which, 'mid all revolutions in the hopes And fears of men, doth still remain unchanged) In beauty' exalted, as it is...
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Selected Poems

William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 pages
...sanctified By reason, blest by faith: what we have loved Others will love, and we will teach them how, 450 Instruct them how the mind of man becomes A thousand...dwells, above this frame of things (Which mid all revolutions in the hopes And fears of men doth still remain unchanged) In beauty exalted, as it is...
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Wordsworth and the Geologists

John Wyatt - 1995 - 300 pages
...the much valued, persisting, and exalted beauty of the earth, and the superior 'mind of man': we may teach them how, Instruct them how the mind of man...dwells, above this frame of things (Which, 'mid all revolutions in the hopes And fears of all men, doth still remain unchanged) In beauty exalted, as it...
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Impure Conceits: Rhetoric and Ideology in Wordsworth’s ‘Excursion’

Alison Hickey - 1997 - 268 pages
...declares, referring to the informing role that he imagines for himself and Coleridge. The lesson will be how the mind of man becomes a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells. But what happens to the concept of imagination when it is yoked to a didactic or disciplinary function?...
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